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Renáta Jamrichová
Renáta Jamrichová (born 20 June 2007) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 304, achieved on 31 March 2025, and a career high WTA doubles ranking of No. 1108, set on 27 February 2023. She had a career-high combined junior ranking of No. 1, achieved on 29 January 2024. Jamrichová and her partner Federica Urgesi won the 2023 Australian girls' doubles title, beating Hayu Kinoshita and Sara Saito in the final. The following year, she won the 2024 Australian girls' singles title, defeating Emerson Jones in the final. The final of the 2024 Wimbledon girls' singles was a rematch between Jamrichová and Jones, in which she won her second Junior Grand Slam singles title. She also won the 2024 French Open girls' doubles title, partnering Tereza Valentová. Early life and background Jamrichová was born in Trnava to father Milan and mother Renáta. She has two younger sisters. At the age of 13, she began training at the Slov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trnava
Trnava (, , ; , also known by other #Names and etymology, alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, to the northeast of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of the Trnava Region and the Trnava District. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric (1541–1820 and then again since 1977). The city has a historic center. Because of the many churches within its city walls, Trnava has often been called "Little Rome" (, ), or more recently, the "Slovak Rome". Names and etymology The name of the city is derived from the name of the creek Trnava. It comes from the Old Slavic/Slovak word ''tŕň'' ("thornbush")Martin Štefánik – Ján Lukačka et al. 2010, Lexikón stredovekých miest na Slovensku, Historický ústav SAV, Bratislava, 2010, p. 523, . http://forumhistoriae.sk/-/lexikon-stredovekych-miest-na-slovensku which characterized the river banks in the region. Many towns in Central and Eastern Europe have a similar etymology including Trnovo, Marti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Saito
is a Japanese tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 159, achieved on 16 December 2024. She reached her career-high doubles ranking of No. 484 on 18 March 2024. Career 2023: Juniors She has a career-high ITF junior combined ranking of 2, achieved on 29 May 2023. She had a disappointing performance in the singles draw of the 2023 Australian Open, losing in the first round to Australian wildcard Stefani Webb. She reached the final of the doubles with fellow Japanese Hayu Kinoshita, losing to Renáta Jamrichová and Federica Urgesi. She was top seeded in the girls' singles tournament at the 2023 French Open, after winning two titles in South America. 2024: First quarterfinal on WTA Tour debut Saito made her WTA Tour main draw debut as a wildcard at the 2024 Japan Women's Open, defeating Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro and fifth seed Elina Avanesyan to reach her first WTA Tour quarterfinal, where her run was ended in straight sets by Kimberly Birrell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktória Hrunčáková
Viktória Hrunčáková (née Kužmová; born 11 May 1998) is a Slovak professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as No. 43 in singles and No. 27 in doubles in the world by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). Hrunčáková has won five doubles titles on the WTA Tour and 25 titles (17 in singles, 8 in doubles) on the ITF Women's World Tennis Tour, ITF Circuit. She also ended runner-up at the WTA Premier tournaments, Premier-level 2019 St. Petersburg Ladies' Trophy – Doubles, 2019 St. Petersburg Trophy and at the 2021 Yarra Valley Classic in doubles, along with Anna Kalinskaya. With the Slovakia team, she contributed to achieve for the first time the final for her country at 2024 Billie Jean King Cup, losing only in the final to Italian Lucia Bronzetti. As a junior, she won the 2015 US Open – Girls' doubles, girls' doubles event at the 2015 US Open (tennis), 2015 US Open alongside Aleksandra Pospelova, defeating Kalinskaya and Anastasia Potapova i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharm El Sheikh
Sharm El Sheikh (, , literally "bay of the Sheikh"), alternatively rendered Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el Sheikh, or Sharm El-Sheikh, is an Egyptian city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea. Its population is approximately 13,000 . Sharm El Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's South Sinai Governorate, which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, St. Catherine and Mount Sinai. It was historically a fishing town and military base, and was developed into a commercial and tourist-centric city in 1968 by Israel. After the Camp David Accords, Israel withdrew from Sinai in 1982, and Egypt resumed control. Egypt continued and expanded the development, promoting Sharm El Sheikh as a major international resort city. Today, the city and holiday resort is a significant centre for tourism in Egypt, while also attracting many international conferences and diplo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Jean King Cup
The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was changed to the Fed Cup in 1995, and changed again in September 2020 in honor of former World No. 1 Billie Jean King. The Billie Jean King Cup is the world's largest annual women's international team sports competition in terms of the number of nations that compete. The current chair is Katrina Adams. The men's equivalent of the Billie Jean King Cup is the Davis Cup, and the Czech Republic, Australia, Russia, Italy and the United States are the only countries to have won both Cups in the same year. History In 1919, Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman had an idea for a women's team tennis competition. This was not adopted but she persisted, presenting a trophy at the 1923 annual contest between the United States and Great Britain, named the Wightman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Podoroska
Nadia Natacha Podoroska (; born 10 February 1997) is an Argentine professional tennis player. On 12 July 2021, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 36, and on 18 October 2021, she peaked at No. 62 in the WTA doubles rankings. Podoroska has won one doubles title on the WTA Tour and three singles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with 14 singles titles and seven doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. Podoroska competed for Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Early life Podoroska was born on 10 February 1997, in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, and grew up in a middle-class family in Fisherton, a neighborhood founded in the late 1880s by railroad workers. She is one of three children born to father Marcelo and mother Irene; she is of Ukrainian descent as her grandparents were Ukrainian, but she does not speak the language at all. Her father was a watchmaker by profession who over the years became a pharmacist, and her mother is also a pharmacist. Nadia was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs
The 2023 Billie Jean King Cup play-offs were held from 10 to 12 November 2023. Teams Sixteen teams played for eight spots in the 2024 Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round, 2024 qualifying round, in series decided on a home and away basis. These sixteen teams were: * 8 losing teams from the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round, qualifying round, in April 2023 (Poland having received a wildcard for the 2023 Billie Jean King Cup finals, finals) * 7 winning teams from their Group I zone * 1 team from their Group I zone (Serbia) to replace Poland. Eight winners will advance to the 2024 qualifying round while losers will contest in their respective regional Group I event in 2024. Seeded teams # (#11) # (#13) # (#14) # (#15) # (#16) # (#17) # (#19) # (#20) Unseeded teams * (#21) * (#22) * (#25) * (#26) * (#27) * (#28) * (#29) * (#31) Results summary Results Slovakia vs. Argentina Belgium vs. Hungary Great Britain vs. Sweden Brazil vs. South Korea Ukraine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Australian Open
The 2024 Australian Open was a Grand Slam level tennis tournament held at Melbourne Park, from 14 to 28 January 2024. It was the 112th edition of the Australian Open, the 56th in the Open Era, and the first major of the year. The tournament consists of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Junior and wheelchair players competed in singles and doubles tournaments. The tournament's main sponsor is Kia. Novak Djokovic was the defending men's singles champion. He was defeated in the semifinals by Jannik Sinner, who went on to beat Daniil Medvedev in a five-set final to win his first major title. Aryna Sabalenka successfully defended the women's singles title as she claimed her second major singles title, defeating Zheng Qinwen without losing a set during the tournament. In the tournament's 119-year history, this was the first Australian Open Tennis Championships to be held on an opening Sunday. The tournament featured the following changes from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennis At The 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival ...
Tennis at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held at the ''Sports Park Tennis'' in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia from 25 to 30 July 2022. Medal table Medalists Participating nations A total of 65 athletes from 34 nations competed in tennis at the 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival: * (2) * (2) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (1) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) * (2) References {{2022 in tennis European Youth Summer Olympic Festival 2022 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival Tennis tournaments in Slovakia 2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pravda (Slovakia)
''Pravda'' ( Slovak for 'Truth') is a major centre-left newspaper in Slovakia. It is owned by Our Media SR a.s. History and profile ''Pravda'' was established in 1920. The daily circulation of Pravda in December 2021 was 27,723 copies and the average number of daily sold copies was 20,266. Since 2010, Pravda has seen a continuous increase in the daily news-stand sales. The online version has 2,217,285 real users according to current AIM figures of February 2022. As of the end of 2021, every edition of ''Pravda'' daily has been read by about 220 thousand people. Pravda is profiled as a liberal left-wing newspaper. Its editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ... has been Jakub Prokeš since 2020. References External links Official website Archivesof ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bratislava
Bratislava (German: ''Pressburg'', Hungarian: ''Pozsony'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic and the fourth largest of all List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, some sources estimate daily number of people moving around the city based on mobile phone SIM cards is more than 570,000. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia at the foot of the Little Carpathians, occupying both banks of the Danube and the left bank of the Morava (river), River Morava. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital to border two sovereign states. The city's history has been influenced by people of many nations and religions, including Austrians, Bulgarians, Croats, Czechs, Germans, Hungarian people, Hungarians, Jews and Slovaks. It was the coronation site and legislative center and capital of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1536 to 1783; elev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NTC Arena
Peugeot Arena (formerly known as AXA Aréna NTC, Sibamac Arena and Aegon Arena for sponsorship reasons) is a multi-purpose tennisstadium part of the Slovak National Tennis Centre (NTC) in Bratislava, Slovakia. It has a capacity of 4,500 people. It has hosted concerts and various tennis matches, including the 2005 Davis Cup final between Slovakia and Croatia, the 2025 Billie Jean King Cup qualifying round and the Slovak Open, an annual ATP Challenger Tour tournament. Concerts List of concerts See also * List of tennis stadiums by capacity The following is a list of notable tennis stadiums by capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators they can regularly accommodate. Notes: * Stadiums ordered by their capacity (if equal, by the first stadium to reach the capacity) * Some of ... References {{end box Tennis venues in Slovakia Indoor arenas in Slovakia Sports venues in Bratislava 2003 establishments in Slovakia Sports venues completed in 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
